Wire and insulator holder.



No. 821,062. PATENTED MAY 22, 1906. A. J. SEGUIN & E. P. GINGRAS.

WIRE AND INSULATOR HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.6, 1905.

ARTHUR J. SEGUIN AND ERNEST BGINGRAS, OF OTTAWA, CANADA.

WIRE AND INSULATOR HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, l 906 Application filed March 6, 1905. fierial No. 248,747.

1'0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR J. SEGUIN and ERNEsT P. 'GINGRAS, of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wire and Insulator Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to those wire and insulator holders for use on electric wires, and especially in house-wiring. The object we have in view is to fill a long-felt want in that class of wiring by assuring the permanent maintenance in position of the wires and their insulators.

It is well known among those skilled in the art to which our invention appertains that in order to set up a safe wiring system in a build ing every wire must be well insulated not only from other wires, but from all uninsulated contacts. In order to accomplish this result, it is very important to keep all the wires well stretched and the insulators in their position. To obtain this result, it has been customary to wind adhesive tape around the wires next to the insulator ends. This means has been found to be more or less effective. The process is slow, tedious, and not productive of permanent results. By our invention a ready, inexpensive, and accurate means is obtained to fulfil all the requiremergts and obviate all the drawbacks above cite In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our wire and insulator holder; Fig. 2, our holder in position when used next to a beam. Fig. 3 shows our holder in position on cross wires.

Our holder is preferably made out of hardened insulated wire. In Fig. 2 it is shown in position on an insulator-tube passed through the beam I-I. wire.

The holder is in one piece of One end is formed into a collar having 1 a hook B. This collar is intended to engage the insulator-tube C back of its enlargement. The other end of the holder terminates into a spiral A, and the wire is so shaped that the inside of the spiral is concentric with the hole in the insulator. This spiral is of somewhat smaller diameter than the electric wire in order to insure aiirm grip on said wire.

In operation the insulator is placed on or around the wire, as usual. The holder is hooked on the insulator with its coiled end extending from it. The electric wire is made taut and twisted into the open coil of the holder. This coil being resilient will expand to receive the wire and firmly grip the same.

We have shown our device in connection with one form of insulator. This form requires the holder to be grasped around the same. There are other forms where the holder would simply abut against the insulator. It will therefore be evident that its shape may be altered without departing from our invention.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A resilient open spiral wire-holder having an integral and concentric insulatorholder.

2. A wire and insulator holder having one end bent to encircle an insulator, and the other end terminating in a resilient open spiral, said resilient spiral being concentric with the insulator-holder.

3. In combination, an insulator, a wire passing through said insulator, a holder detachably secured to said insulator and having a resilient open spiral encircling the wire.

ARTHUR J. SEGUIN. ERNEST P. GINGRAS. Witnesses:

'JNo. KILGALLIN, A. E. OARsoN. 

